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The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5) QUOTES

The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5) QUOTES

1 " It’s good to live in the past. It’s sexier here "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

2 " I will say only this - when le prête is in the right mood, he can make even the devil afraid to turn his back "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

3 " The kiss surrounded her like air, held her up like water, supported her like the earth and burned her like fire. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

4 " You're not a normal priest, are you?'

He gave her a smile that hit her like a slap to the face and a kiss on the mouth all at once.

'My God, I hope not. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

5 " Safe to say our Lord was one of the first radical feminists. He constantly berated men who judged women. The woman with the alabaster jar. The woman with the issue of blood. The first person he spoke to after His resurrection was not Peter, but Mary Magdalene.'

'Jesus loved the ladies. I like that. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

6 " The church can proscribe anything and everything it wants to, but the church is still made up entirely of human beings. Heaping rule upon rule on our congregations isn't going to make anyone holier. It'll serve only to add to the guilt that is endemic in our churches. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

7 " Visions flashed through her mind. A fluttering of white wings. A burning arrow. Stained glass under her feet. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

8 " We’re here, you and I. We’re not going away. We’re here, if for no other reason than God wants us here, and He gets the final say. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

9 " If I'm going to give you forever," she said, raising her chin higher, "I want something in return."

"I already offered to help you out of your mess. What else do you want?"

Eleanor considered her demands. He sounded open to suggestion, which was good because she had a suggestion.

"Everything."

"Everything?" he repeated. "As in. . .?"

"Every. Thing." She stared at him across the desk, and this time it was her turn not to blink. "I give you forever, the least you can give me is everything. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

10 " Do you hear that?”

She tilted her head and listened.

“No. I don’t hear anything. Do you hear something?” she asked Søren.
“I do.”
“What?”
“God laughing at me. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

11 " Life is a symphony composed by God, played by us with preludes, themes, movements, passages...and wrong notes, so many wrong notes. Heaven is where we get to hear the music played perfectly for the first time. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

12 " Kingsley stepped even closer.
“How old are you?” he asked her.
“Seventeen. How old are you?”
“Thirty. Is your hymen intact?”
Eleanor stood up straighter.
“Is your brain intact?”
“I ask for a reason.” He shook his finger in her face to hush her. “I fucked a virgin last week. I didn’t mean to.”
“What happened? You trip and fall into her hymen? "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

13 " You mind-fucked me.”
“Does your brain hurt? I tried to be gentle since it was your first time. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

14 " There is God, there is you and there is Kingsley. Those are my three nonnegotiables. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

15 " What's a dissertation?"

"If Satan gave you instructions for writing the book report from Hell, it would closely resemble those of a Ph.D. dissertation. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

16 " Little One, to be with me is to hurt.”
“To be without you would hurt more. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

17 " She should submit to him in love and without fear, giving her body to him like a holy offering and making their bed an altar. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

18 " A man in love with a woman in love with another man is the second most desperate creature on the earth.”
“What’s the first?”
“A man in love with a man in love with another woman.”
Eleanor laughed. Kingsley didn’t. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

19 " I wish I could give you everything you wanted. But even a good gift is a bad gift if given at the wrong time. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)

20 " Adam and Eve didn't know what they would win or what they would lose until they'd both won and lost it. It's like that poem we read. The guy doesn't know what the meaning is of the road he took until he got to the end of it. You choose first, then you find out what you've chosen after. Every choice has a price. Sometimes we don't know what it is until after we've paid it. "

― Tiffany Reisz , The Saint (The Original Sinners, #5)